Recent content by CN Chen

Andy, can you reveal to us which Tuesday in December?

Tough noogies I wasn't able to find someone to take the other side of my bet!

Then perhaps these trading competition results should be used as inputs into the 2017 BaruchNet rankings?

That's a great point but the focus on tuition here may be (dare I say it) intentional. When US News does their college rankings table, they include things like acceptance rate, and enrollment class size numbers along with tuition. Here, tuition is clearly the most important thing. That's...

@GoIllini Sorry, I was wrong. There are no income limits on Traditional IRA contributions, but there is an income limit on the ability to take a tax deductions from a contribution. Having read many of your posts on WSO, I should have known better than to question your personal finance wisdom...

@GoIllini I agree with your advice generally, but the bit about IRA is not entirely true. You're right about the income threshold for Roth IRA, but Traditional IRA contribution is still possible up to $5,500 p.a. and this avoids the headache involved in a 401k rollover (i.e. a fair amount of...

http://www.quantstart.com/articles/Why-a-Masters-in-Finance-Wont-Make-You-a-Quant-Trader Mike's argument makes a lot of sense to me. Quant funds hire candidates who can perform independent research, not simply regurgitate well-known methods within the quant trading community. The best way to...

Very thoughtful and well written post @yatici. I really feel anyone considering doing MFE programs or currently in the programs should read it.

If you have any questions about the NYU program as part-time, feel free to PM me. Unfortunately, I don't know all that much about Columbia's Math Finance program, so I can't say one is better than the other for your situation.

I don't think the average GRE score for part-time students has ever been made publicly available. Given the lack of information, I would use their full-time score as a baseline. For part-time admissions, as long as you have taken the minimum math courses outlined on their website...

I am not too familiar with the NYU-Poly MSFE program, but given that you also mentioned they "hire folks from math background", did you mean NYU MSFM?

https://www.quantnet.com/forum/members/cn-chen.2361/

Nicely done last night. The house was on fire. Literally.

Yike, you coming to this?

I was in the same boat as you guys last year, ultimately picking NYU over MIT even after putting in a deposit with them. MIT had over enrolled their class, so I got my money back without any problem. They may refund your deposit too if you ask nicely. If you want to go into quant finance, go...